8. Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the sovereign Lord. It is the day I have spoken about.
9. “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling – the shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.
10. They will not need to take wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the sovereign Lord.
11. “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog.
12. For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.
13. All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.
14. They will designate men to scout continually through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.
15. When the scouts survey the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it in the valley of Hamon-Gog.
16. (A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’
17. “As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.
18. You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
19. You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.
20. You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the sovereign Lord.
21. “I will display my majesty among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited among them.
22. Then the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.